Pauline's Fantasy Reviews

Now here’s a thing: a book by Andrea K Höst that doesn’t set me on fire. It’s a perfectly fine, entertaining read, you understand, a solid ...

I think I must be losing my tolerance for books written to a theme, rather than the author’s burning desire to tell a story. This one is a...

This is one of those books with loads of interesting ideas where the execution falls a little flat. The concept of the human mother being ...

I'm not sure what to make of this book. It's not the sort of thing I normally read - it's contemporary, and might perhaps fit t...

I don't read a lot of urban fantasy, but this one has a great premise: Cleo has an unusual talent. She can see when people lie, by way ...

You’d think it would be hard to mess up a book like this. Three kids are driving home from a night out, off their heads on booze and pills,...

The first book in this series, ‘The Duchess of the Shallows’, was a breath of fresh air, a fantasy work set in a single city, with compell...

Recently I went to my local independent bookstore to buy a book to send to a just-twelve-year-old. What would you recommend, I asked the l...

The second part of the Riyria prequels. The first part, ‘The Crown Tower’, was such riotously good entertainment that I gave it five stars....

This is the fourth part of a six-book series, and if that sounds like a Wheel-of-Time-esque slog, it’s not as bad as it sounds. The series ...

The author’s steampunk series, ‘The Emperor’s Edge’, has built up quite a following, but this is something very different, the start of an ...

This is book 5 is the Emperor's Edge series, and this review is going to be full of spoilers for the first four books of the series. If...

This is the fourth in the Emperor’s Edge steampunk series, and everyone should know the drill by now: former enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon lead...

This has been going the rounds (you can play at home, too). Author you’ve read the most books from: If I include all time records from my ...

This is rather a short book, closer to a novella than a full-length novel, but it packs a hefty punch for its size. Eurik is a human who wa...

Prequels are difficult. Fans already know everything that happens down the line, so it’s hard to create enough tension and uncertainty (It’...

I love the premise here: every twelve years twelve people are chosen for a ritual; they wake one morning to find a coloured stone beside th...

This is a break away from fantasy for the author, but not very far. It’s technically science fiction - a guy builds a time machine in his ...

Well, well, well. J K Rowling has balls after all, publishing under a pseudonym and gathering some good reviews and typical mid-list debut ...

It's a strange thing, but I had 'Prince of Thorns' sitting on my Kindle for a full year before I got round to reading it. I...